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Link: HR impersonation with suspicious domain indicators and credential theft

Detects messages impersonating HR departments containing many links with malformed domains, suspicious TLD patterns, and credential theft language detected through URL analysis.

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Detection Logic

type.inbound
// high number of links
and length(body.links) > 20
// hr-related subject or sender
and (
  regex.icontains(sender.display_name, "\\bhr\\b")
  or strings.icontains(sender.display_name, "human resources")
  or strings.icontains(sender.display_name, "employee relation")
  or regex.icontains(subject.subject, "sal[ai1l
| ]r[i1l
| ]es")
  or regex.icontains(subject.subject, "hr__.{0,30}")
  or regex.icontains(subject.subject, "work.{0,5}hours")
  or regex.icontains(subject.subject,
                     "instant:.{0,20}(salaries
| salary
| changed
| update)"
  )
  or strings.icontains(body.current_thread.text, "vacation plan")
)
// suspect domain irregularities (like www.,company.com)
and any(body.links,
        (
          // malformed domains with comma variations
          regex.icontains(.display_text, "www.?,")
          // multiple consecutive dots
          or regex.icontains(.display_text, "\\.{2,}")
          // comma in domain position  
          or regex.icontains(.display_text, "\\.,")
          // suspicious TLD patterns that might be typosquatting
          or regex.icontains(.display_text, "\\.(tu
| cg
| mv
| tk
| 3v
| ct
| jh)/")
          // random characters in TLD position
          or regex.icontains(.display_text,
                             "\\.[a-z0-9]{1,3}/[a-z0-9]+/[a-z0-9]+/"
          )
          // URLs that contain obvious credential theft terms in the path
          or regex.icontains(.display_text,
                             "/(sal[ai1l
| ]r[i1l
| ]es
| login
| auth
| verify
| portal
| payment)/"
          )
        )
        and .visible == true
        and any(ml.nlu_classifier(beta.ocr(ml.link_analysis(.).screenshot).text).intents,
                .name == "cred_theft" and .confidence == "high"
        )
)
// exclusions for legitimate sources 
and not any(ml.nlu_classifier(body.current_thread.text).topics,
            .name in (
              "Security and Authentication",
              "Secure Message",
              "Newsletters and Digests",
              "Entertainment and Sports"
            )
            and .confidence in ("medium", "high")
)
// exclude messages with a bunch of previous corrospondance
and not length(body.previous_threads) > 5

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